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Breaking: Skeleton found in car park is that of Richard III, last Plantagenet king of England

Yeah, the bones were DNA tested and found to match two of Richard's descendants. As a former King of England, they are being treated with a surprising (I guess) amount of respect, despite being 550 years old and his piss-poor rep in history (Mainly due to Shakespeare, who, for reasons of keeping his head, had to suck up to the Tudors. Henry Tudor aka Henry VII, defeated Richard III to claim the crown and end the War of the Roses. Henry VII doesn't get the play Henry VIII does but he was actually far more interesting.).

Yeah, the bones were DNA tested and found to match two of Richard's descendants. As a former King of England, they are being treated with a surprising (I guess) amount of respect, despite being 550 years old and his piss-poor rep in history (Mainly due to Shakespeare, who, for reasons of keeping his head, had to suck up to the Tudors. Henry Tudor aka Henry VII, defeated Richard III to claim the crown and end the War of the Roses. Henry VII doesn't get the play Henry VIII does but he was actually far more interesting.).

Yeah, the bones were DNA tested and found to match two of Richard's descendants. As a former King of England, they are being treated with a surprising (I guess) amount of respect, despite being 550 years old and his piss-poor rep in history (Mainly due to Shakespeare, who, for reasons of keeping his head, had to suck up to the Tudors. Henry Tudor aka Henry VII, defeated Richard III to claim the crown and end the War of the Roses. Henry VII doesn't get the play Henry VIII does but he was actually far more interesting.).

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Consider the Yorkists had done what they could to completely exterminate the Lancasters, it's not that surprising that he was buried in ignominiously. One of Henry VII's better moves from the view of healing the wounds fot he past was to marry a Yorkist...